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The French have a streamlined regulatory framework including standardized reactor designs and limited public comment that helps to reduces their costs and timel
by jdavis703 5y ago
The French have a streamlined regulatory framework including standardized reactor designs and limited public comment that helps to reduces their costs and timelines.
Source: chapter 6 of “Nuclear Power: A Brief Introduction.”
- tobessebot 5y agoIn theory yes, in practice... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EPR_(nuclear_reactor)#Flamanville_3_(France) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EPR_(nuclear_reactor)#Flamanvi...
- epistasis 5y agoI think what this points out is that the problem isn't government regulation, it's incompetent design, engineering, procurement, and construction. The stories in the US about VC Summer and Vogtle construction failures do not point to government regulation being the problem, they point to basic flaws throughout the construction process. Design of the AP1000 that is "unconstructable" according to the EPC contractor, who then goes on to build their own unproven design, which then requires an external check. The problem wasn't that the design had to be certified by the government, the problem was that design wasn't in touch with construction.